Commonweal Puts the West in Its Place

One thing the Liberal mind cannot stomach is the concept that some things have greater values than others, that there can be among human beings, nations, and civilizations a higher and a lower. So it was predictable that when Brent Bozell in “The Strange Drift of Liberal Catholicism” (national review, August 12) dared to say that Western civilization has a unique and transcendent value, and that our war against Communism is a holy war. Liberalism would rise in its wrath.

Meyer